...always remembering that there are some things the human body simply cannot do.

Special circumstances, such as pregnancy, may be approached with a certain amount of artistic license. If the mom-to-be is self-conscious, feel free to make her stomach just a bit smaller than in reality.

The head should be connected with a graceful, appropriately proportioned neck:

If, however, you find that your head and body do not match up, simply employ the "hand out of nowhere" technique:

If anyone asks, it's doing a shadow puppet.

Or, if you find that hands are too difficult, simply leave them off:

Or for that matter, just omit all of the limbs and the head. After all, a well-drawn torso is more than capable of communicating the innate vitality and smooth, vivaciousness of youth:

O_o Wow, those are odd. I can only imagine the cupcakes are meant to be a male torso. A male with man-boobs that are proportionately large compared to his bony ribcage-poking-out midsection. The last one also creeps me out. It looks like the front on top and the back on the bottom. Neither done well, of course. Grandma, never wear a bikini again!

The first one I could almost see owls looking back at me. I agree there is a gender problem there.

The army cake: The head has a shiny spot under the eye which makes it appear as if it is appropriately crying.

Hard man is good to find: Wonder if this wreck picture was cropped on purpose? I don't think I want to know what's below....

It's a boy: Seriously, I could understand if this was attempted on a CCC, but a regular sheet cake?

The torso: The top part of the chest is smooth, but the rest of the body has cellulite or elephantitis! Did the wreckerator just get tired of smoothing half way through? The curves were too difficult to travel a spatula through?

Hey, I just thought you ought to know your first comment for the wonky torso cupcakes is really, really offensive to transgender, genderqueer, and intersexed people. Come on, I don't want cisprivelige in my cakewrecks. :( I want carrot jockeys and horrible misspellings.

Two things... First, #5 looks suspiciously like the manequins that my step-mother's students use at the beauty school. Cake + hair trimmings + the chemical smells = YUCK!Second, sheesh, Octo, get real. If you haven't figured out by now that the name of this website is NOT "PC Cakes", then you have not been around very long. Come on, take a look at those CC's. Don't they look a little wonky, even to you?? Are they supposed to be man boobs - or a woman with serious wrinkles beneath the girls? Maybe it's an advertisement for a plastic surgeon??

It's not the gender of those cupcakes that confuses me, it's WTF are they for? I wouldn't rank it that high on my transphobometer but I do think you missed an opportunity for better snark about the purpose of these mysterious torso cupcakes.

I'll take a run at explaining Camo Barbie: Someone who sticks their neck out for someone else deserves cake.

The last one looks like pasta. I wish I was kidding. Puts a whole new spin on "If I eat this, it'll just go straight to my waist." And other places...

"What the...? Quick-set epoxy in the frosting again?! You guys got me with that yesterday, too! That explains why I couldn't change tips on the piping bag, and why I couldn't finish smoothing this out..."

By the way, the turtleneck? No, on your uniform. Look, it's understandable that you want to blend in and all, but modifying the uniform is against regulations.

We all have things we have to overcome; why look at Abby on the next cake. You think having a left shoulder six inches lower than the right stops her? Not likely! She makes shadow puppets and everything!

It looks like something took a bite out of the pregnant lady on that cake lol. As for the first cupcakes.. I thought they were female breasts until I saw what passed for abs and chest hair.. oh boy would someone get in trouble if they brought those home. I would love to know why someone made a male torso out of cupcakes..gross and so not appealing unless you pretend it's cake then maybe.. lol.

Actually, having another look at the Smith cake, I think I was doing her an injustice in my earlier comment. She's all woman, in fact she's all 19th century woman, in those lovely leg o'mutton sleeves. She should team it with a lovely wide brimmed hat adorned with camo ribbons and tree branches

@ Octo: if you come here for carrot jockeys and horrible misspellings, rest assured that there are pleeeenntttyyyy of entries here you will love. I'm sure you can find some cakes you don't choose to be offended by, and let the rest of us be to laugh at what is a funny comment and a really creepy-looking set of cupcakes. (Yes, I said "choose to be offended"... you don't have to let your feelings get hurt every time someone says something you don't like. A lot of us learned that the hard way in grade school! *thumbs up*

I use the mannequin heads like the one in the military cake at my cosmetology school. I wondered if they gave it a lice treatment before surrounding it with cake, because they are almost always infested with lice. When there are no live lice present, there are always dead eggs.

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